Process groups are a natural tool for distributed programming, and are increasingly important in distributed computing environments. However, there is little agreement on the most appropriate semantics for process group ...

The voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is one of the most important building blocks in modern communication applications such as microprocessor clock generation, wired and wireless communications, system synchronization, ...

Auctions have become the standard way of allocating resources in electronic markets. Two main reasons why designing auctions is hard are the need to cope with strategic behavior of the agents, who will constantly adjust ...